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Stevie Wonder Biography

Stevie Wonder(Steveland Morris)singer, composer, producerBorn: 5/13/1950Birthplace: Saginaw, Michigan Grammy Award-winning singer, composer, producer, arranger, and instrumentalist known for his…

Hilary Mantel

Name at birth: Hilary Mary ThompsonHilary Mantel's fictional account of King Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell earned her the Man Booker Prize twice -- for 2009's Wolf Hall and 2012's Bring Up…

Aesop's Fables: The Archer and the Lion

by Aesop The Lamb Chased By a WolfThe Wolf and the GoatThe Archer and the Lion An Archer went up into the hills to get some sport with his bow, and all the animals fled at the sight of him…

Reese Witherspoon Biography

Reese Witherspoon (Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon)actressBorn: 3/22/1976Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana Witherspoon made critically acclaimed television and feature film debuts in 1991, with…

Brewer's: Misnomers

Absalom means a Father's Peace, a fatal name for David's rebellious son. Acid (sour) applied in chemistry to a class of bodies to which sourness is only accidental and by no means a…

Black Football Players

Notable African-American Track and Field Athletes   Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials…

2006 Deaths: M - Q

Naguib MahfouzMakoArif MardinSophie MaslowRobert McCulloughRobert McFerrin Sr.Darren McGavinEnolia McMillanJay McShannG. William MillerSlobodan MilosevicJohn MoneyEric NamesnikJared…

2001 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Viviana Risca, 17, Paul D.Schreiber Senior High School, Port Washington, N.Y., for her computer science project, “DNA-based Steganography,” which studied…